Paolo Lovera
Development of a robotic arm for non-invasive inspection and interaction with bees in an advanced technological beehive.
Rel. Alessandro Rizzo, Donato Romano. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Mechatronic Engineering (Ingegneria Meccatronica), 2025
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The field of Animal Robot Interaction (ARI) represents one of the most rapidly evolving areas within bio-robotics. This interdisciplinary domain merges robotics, biotechnology, mechanics, electronics, and materials science to bridge the gap between the animal and artificial worlds. Within this framework, this master's thesis presents the development of a robotic arm designed to operate within a smart beehive. The work is part of the European SENSORBEES project, which employs bees as biological sensors to monitor and map biodiversity. This work investigates the biosensing potential of bees, introducing an innovative approach that extends this current underexplored state of the art in ARI.
By exploiting their natural pollination and foraging behaviors, bees provide valuable insights into ecosystem health and biodiversity, making them ideal model organisms for biohybrid interaction studies
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